Gordon-Michael Scallion
New Hampshire, above 4000
feet
Sources
"Gordon-Michael
Scallion, a Summary of His Most Important Predictions,"
and "A
Review of Gordon-Michael Scallion's Predictions for 1995,"
both by David Sunfellow; NewHeavenNewEarth Special Reports, published
December 1994 and February 1996, respectively. Sunfellow has continued
to track the elusive Scallion, and more recent reports are also available
on the NewHeavenNewEarth site.
Transcript of an interview conducted on the Art
Bell radio show, December 8, 1995.
Summary
Gordon-Michael Scallion is the best known of the New Age prophets.
He regularly appears on television and radio and offers lectures
and seminars. His Matrix Institute, located in New Hampshire, publishes
the Earth Changes Report and runs an Earth Changes Hotline
(900 number) service. He also may or may not have a web site —
from Google, I couldn't get either matrixinstitute.com or earthchanges.com
to come up, in May 2005.
In the time-tested tradition that reaches at least as far back as Nostradamus,
and that Jeanne Dixon rode to riches and fame, each year Scallion issues
predictions for the coming year. He then follows up, a year later, with
a report on how he did.
Commentary
In December 1994, David Sunfellow of the NewHeavenNewEarth organization
in Sedona, AZ, published a summary of Scallion's important predictions
to date (they stretch back to 1989). Although he noted that many of Scallions
"misses" were major ones, and that a couple of his most important predictions
had been made — and failed to occur — more than once, he appeared
willing to give Scallion the benefit of the doubt. In fact, he reported
excitedly on the possible fulfillment of a Scallion prediction that a
new volcano would be born in the Sierra Nevada near the Nevada-California
border.
Fourteen months later, Sunfellow issued a follow-up report. Now, he had
analyzed Scallion's record more thoroughly. And, he had carefully taken
apart Scallion's own review of the hits and misses for 1995, comparing
it with the original predictions for that year. Here is what he concluded:
If you happen to be a new subscriber
to Scallion's newsletter or a current subscriber that doesn't read very
carefully, you might be dazzled by Scallion's impressive track record.
If, on the other hand, you have been carefully tracking Scallion's predictions
as we have, the main thing that would impress you is how Scallion misrepresented
many of his "hits" and how many of Scallion's most trumpeted predictions
for 1995 not only didn't come true, BUT WERE SCARCELY MENTIONED, OR NOT
MENTIONED AT ALL, in his annual review. Scallion did make a few accurate
predictions, but his overall track record was nowhere near the accuracy
rate presented by the current issue of ECR. Indeed, his most significant
predictions for 1995 were major flops.
Sunfellow goes on to document just how
wrong, and then misleading (in his post-year report), Scallion was in
stating that "1995 will be the most dynamic year of this century, perhaps
this millennium." A big part of the excitement in 1995 was to be due to
the uncovering of no fewer than 12 entire buildings, "containing art,
musical instruments, records of their history, prophecies, medical instruments,
their tenants, machinery and the ancient, perfectly preserved remains
of three people," on the Giza Plateau in Egypt. (This was all to be stuff
the Atlanteans left behind, by the way.)
Scallion said, in late '94, "I believe it [the Giza discovery] will be
the greatest of all discoveries, a record of who we really are, where
we came from, what happened to our ancestors, and most importantly, prophecies
left for us over 12,000 years ago, to be discovered exactly at this time
— 1995." He was so convinced of all this that he decided to travel
to Egypt, in order to be on hand for the "inter-dimensional doorway [I
believe] will open in the Sphinx beginning in January."
In Scallion's yearly review, published in February 1996, he counts his
major Egyptian prediction as one of his hits, but, as Sunfellow notes,
without restating exactly what it was he had been predicting. Scallion
offered the following two tidbits as confirmation of his prophetic powers:
In May, major archeological discoveries
were found in Egypt. Sixty-seven chambers were found that go back to the
time of Ramses II who ruled from 1290 to 1212 B.C.
An ancient Egyptian canal discovered near the pyramid of Giza, built about
4,500 years ago.
To which Sunfellow responds,
What do these two "hits" have
to do with Scallion's prediction that major artifacts from a highly advanced
ancient civilization would be discovered? If you overlook the fact that
the Valley of the Kings where Ramses II's tomb is located is SEVERAL HUNDRED
MILES AWAY from the Giza Plateau, that both discoveries ARE DATED SEVERAL
THOUSAND YEARS LATER than Scallion predicted and that NEITHER DISCOVERY
HAD ANYTHING TO DO WITH A HERETOFORE UNKNOWN ADVANCED CIVILIZATION, then
perhaps Scallion could be credited for accurately predicting a major archeological
discovery in Egypt this year. But when you compare what Scallion actually
said, with what actually happened, his most prominent prediction for 1995
doesn't come remotely close to being fulfilled. By re-printing the broadest,
least specific part of his Egyptian prediction (and leaving out all the
details) Scallion made it look like a wildly inaccurate prediction was,
after all, a hit.
To which I respond, amen.
But what really gets me about Mr. rap-Scallion is how blatantly
he rips off his predecessor, Edgar
Cayce. Just like Cayce, Scallion is
impelled into the prophecy business by a problem with his vocal
cords! That could be overlooked — perhaps it is routine for
those who will go on to speak the forbidden language of prophecy
to be stricken at the outset in that organ — and so could the
fact that Scallion's Earth Changes almost perfectly match Cayce's,
right down to the reappearance of Atlantis and Mu; but darn it,
does he have to say that "Europe is to go beneath the sea as in
a twinkling of an eye," when Cayce has already told us that "The
upper portion of Europe will be changed as in the twinkling of an
eye." He could at least have cleaned up the master's syntax a little!
And did he have to borrow the precise warning sign that Cayce gave for
the Big One on the West Coast, that is, simultaneous eruptions of Mt.
Vesuvius and Mt. Pelee (Martinique, Caribbean)? It can be argued, of course,
that if that is the warning sign, he could hardly say anything else; but
it smells like a lot of bull-eschatology to me.
I just have to share with you, though, my favorite Scallion prediction.
After the Apocalypse is all over and the dust has settled, he says, what
is left of the current United States will have been reorganized into ...
"thirteen colonies." Now that's what I call some creative prophesying!
Oh, and "By the turn of the century a new sun will appear in the skies"
was a good one, too. But it didn't happen.
What a scalawag.
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